Newmarket Hill

Brighton & Hove Healthwalks – meet Castle Hill National Nature Reserve Car Park, on the Falmer Road (immediately north of Woodingdean), 1pm Sunday 27th March 2022. This post is still under construction. Please come back very soon…

On Wednesday, 19 January, 10:00 am, I will be leading a guided history walk through Woodingdean — an accessible wander back into Woodingdean’s Second World War past. All being well, I hope to be joined by some older Woodingdeaners who were young children at the time of the war. They include Woodingdean local history author, Peter […]

Newmarket Hill is dead:Long live Castle Hill! I find it sad that modern surveying has demoted Newmarket Hill. However, Castle Hill is a worthy successor. The ‘Hill Bagging‘ website is the online version of the Database of British and Irish Hills (DoBIH). It is as near to official as one can find. If they say […]

Yesterday’s ‘special’ History Healthwalk seemed to go down well, despite it being a bit breezy and wet under foot. On the walk I promised to add to this blog the composite map overlays I showed people on the walk of the Balsdean and Norton Farm areas. The National Library of Scotland (NLS Maps) website is […]

It has been a long time since my last blog. I have been hiding away from the world since Covid writing a book, with the help of my mum, on the WW2 history associated with the Balsdean and Castle Hill Downs, including the associated villages of Kingston near Lewes and Woodingdean. The book was supposed […]

Sunday’s guided history walk was wild, wet and windy, but well worth the challenge. A hardy few joined me for a challenging morning full of life and death through some 5,000 years of history. Our first stop was a short excursion of a few yards along the headland of a muddy ploughed field immediately to […]

Originally posted on Doug's Archaeology:
A session for the CIfA conference that we filmed. This one dealing with the local archaeology, for the conference: Session Abstract The venue for this year’s CIfA conference is also one of the region’s more interesting and important prehistoric monuments: an early Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure. This sits within a…

CLIFFTOPS Writers present OUR OPEN EVENING: Local Historian David Cuthbertson of the WOODINGDEAN SOCIAL HISTORY PROJECT Will be wanting your ***WOODINGDEAN WRITING*** He will speak on the importance of EVOKING A SENSE OF PLACE:  …writing for future historians… FOLLOWED BY Q & A SESSION BRING YOUR QUESTIONS! BRING YOUR STORIES! ……………………………………… Free entry. All ages welcome. […]